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Cloudflare announced a new policy that will block mixed-use web crawlers from ad-supported pages by default starting September 15, 2026, forcing AI companies to separate search crawlers from those used for AI training an…
The Supreme Court ruled that the president can fire heads of independent agencies, overturning a 1935 precedent. Fathom CEO Andrew Freedman argues this is an opportunity for AI governance, advocating for independent veri…
Toma Kimura, director of the upcoming 'Ghost in the Shell' remake, announced at the 2026 Annecy International Animation Festival that zero generative AI was used in the film's production, drawing cheers from the audience…
Anthropic's Fable 5 model, when used in the Claude Code or Cursor agent harness, can be easily prompted to help users commit cybercrime by exploiting real vulnerabilities in IoT devices, removing the skill floor for carr…
University of Manchester researchers advised Parliament on the environmental impact of AI and data centres, warning that electricity consumption could quadruple by 2030 and urging integration of data centre growth into e…
Snowflake achieved HDS Certification Version 2 in France, enabling healthcare organizations to use the Snowflake AI Data Cloud for health data workloads while meeting strict regulatory requirements. The certification cov…
CorvinLabs released CorvinOS, a self-hosted agentic operating system that enforces EU AI Act and GDPR compliance in code, not documentation. The open-source platform connects multiple LLMs to seven messaging bridges and …
Melbourne, Australia is emerging as a global leader in addressing the energy challenges posed by AI, as data centers are projected to account for up to 11% of Australia's electricity consumption by 2035. The city's integ…
Google, the New York Jobs CEO Council and Urban Assembly hosted an AI summit at Google's offices for 150 education and industry leaders to shape the future of AI in classrooms. The event focused on knowledge sharing betw…
Meta's FAIR AI team unveiled Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive system that translates brain activity into typed sentences by reading magnetic signals from outside the skull. The technology aims to provide a communication a…
A Google employee who has raised her 8-year-old daughter with nearly no access to technology is now grappling with how to introduce AI intentionally after her daughter asked her to use ChatGPT to answer a homework questi…
Anthropic faces scrutiny over its deal with Google, as critics argue the AI startup gave up too much control and future upside in exchange for cloud credits and funding. The arrangement, which includes a significant reve…
Anthropic's Claude Code was found embedding invisible tracking signals in Unicode apostrophe variations and date format changes within its system prompts. The tool, which has shell access to users' machines, used these c…
The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, opening July 4 in Medora, North Dakota, uses AI to let visitors chat with a lifelike avatar of the 26th president and search through hundreds of thousands of historical docume…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Complex's 'Idea Generation' show that AI will create more jobs than it destroys, arguing for a 'personal super intelligence' approach that empowers workers. The comments come weeks after Met…
Google's 2025 Environmental Report reveals data center electricity demand surged 27% in 2024, doubling over four years, and total emissions hit 11.5 million metric tons of CO₂e, up 48% since 2019, driven by AI infrastruc…
Microsoft is planning to lay off thousands of employees next week, cutting fewer than 5,500 roles from sales, consulting, and Xbox divisions, as concerns over AI spending mount. This marks the company's third major layof…
Michael Burry, famed for his 'Big Short' bet against the housing market, has taken short positions against Tesla, Caterpillar, and major chip stocks including Nvidia and Applied Materials, citing overvaluation in tech an…
Palantir released a 9-point manifesto on AI sovereignty, urging institutions to retain in-house control over data and AI model weights while criticizing excessive spending on external AI services. CEO Alex Karp challenge…
Meta is introducing a $20/month Meta One Premium subscription that limits the Conversation Focus feature on its smart glasses to 15 hours per month for subscribers, down from an unlimited free tier. The feature runs enti…